Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-01

last Friday night.
There is talk OF establishing a Methodist
college In the Black Hills.
The Forest City Press has started out in the
fifth year OF It's existence.
Hughes county is to make an exhibit at the
territorial fair at Mitchell.
A movement is on foot 10 establish q car
riage factory 10 Sioux Falls.
The new Congregational college at Redield
was opened on the twenty-6rst.
The Catholic people Of Montrose are erect
Ing a parsonage twenty-four feet square.
The bids for the building Of the city hall at
YanktUu viii be opened Saturday night.
The Hanson county prohibition union is
running a quiet but thorough campaign.
The DeSmet roller mill, which has recently
been improved, started up again Tuesday.
The Manitoba IL running trains into Water
town and hard coal there onlv $3.50 per
ton.
Rev. d. F. Thompson, OF 81. Peter, was or
dained an Episcopal minister on Wednes-
day.
A teachers institute, conducted by Gen.
Besdle, will be held at Tlenarau, commencing
October 3.
Three horses belonging to Mrs. Frank Dries,
OF Vermillion, were killed by lightning Thurs
day night.
One Of the Doodle aldermen OF Chicago, who
escaped with a fine OF $1,000 visited Yankton
last week.
The Grand Forks chamber OF has
received President CIeveland's d~eclinatior to
visit that city.
The Northern Pacific extension from La
Moure to Edgerly, a distance OF twenty-three
miles, was completed Wednesday.
Miss Birdie Walsh, daughter of Hon.
George 3. Walsh, was married at Grand
Forks, Wednesday to J. B. Wineman.
Ex-Gov. Pierce In the Pioneer Press says
the country between Cakes and Reddeld is
one continuous cluster Of grain stacks.
At the Aberdeen fair a man who stepped on
the track at the races was struck by a team
and seriously and probably fatally injured.
1t Is reported on good authority that the
Duluth, Huron and Denver railroad company
has decided to iocate Its shops at Watertown.
The Watertown Farmers alliance are build
ing the largest fat warehouse in the city.
They will also build q coal house Sob 30 feet.
The Press thinks the outlook is very en-
%couraging for Forest City to be connected
with the outside world b. fore the snow AS
Esquire Dickinson's barn at Litchdeld was
struck by lightning on Wednesday. Mr.. Mar.
tin distinguished the flames with a can OF
milk.
A pelican, the bill OF which measured Az
iaches long, and from tip TO tip of wings So
feet, was killed at Sand lake, near Aberdeen,
Sunday.
The Wakonda, Clay county, Independent
has been moved to Centreviile and the mate
rial will be used in issuing the Centreville
Journal.
Mayor Teller, of Yankton, has announced
hat the bridge charter owned by himself and
others viii be given 10 the Manitoba or any
other company that would build a road and
bridge across the Missouri river.
The schools OF Sioux Falls opened with less
scholars this year than last year, but the
Argus-Leader explains and claims the enroll
ment at the end OF the month will be larger
than at the end Of the same month last year.
The extension OF the Northwestern road TO
Gettysburg has been delayed until the first OF
next month, for the reason that the company
cannot get rails enough to finish bp. The
road is now ironed and completed TO Seneca,
twenty-five miles east of Gettysburg.
Aberdeen Republican Is: Mr.. Daggctt
thrashed 2,15S bushels Of grain OF w. F.
Sidew's farm one day last week with his Buff
falo Pitts machine. That IL the wsy the No.
| hard is hustled out In Dakota. The crop
averaged twenty-five bushels to the acre.
An sttache of the Fargo Argus was a school,
mate OF A. II. Lewis, OF the MUbank Review,
and the arson case was known In the Argus
office four years ago says that paper. 1t admits
that there is something In the charge bat it
ought now to be overlooked as a youthful in
discretion, the Argus thinks. r..
Judge Palmer, IN q column article in the
Sioux Falls Press, calls the press TO order for
recommending BY implication, be thinks,
lynch law In the case OF the Hutchinson coun
ty outrage in which Glenn, a so-called preach
ct, Is proven 10 nave ut OduCHcO, through d
period OF eight years, FIVE of his dau zhters.
Father Hare informs the Aberdeen News
that the reports that Father Perrault will
take the Aberdeen charge are Incorrect. He
said Father Perrsxlt would go to Mandan,
while he himself will continue IN charge OF
the Aberdeen parish and also attend to his
duties ss editor Of the Dakota Catholic
American.
Bishop Walker, or narth Dakota, has re-
Gently returned from q visit TO Standing
Rock. The Indians, he says, state that the
fsod given them by the government is musty.
They oppose the Dawes bill and say they do
not want land dealt to them Ia severalty, but
want TO know how much land they have, and
control 1t as they see tit.
A correspondent interviewed Van Tasscl, OF
the jnaane asylum board, who animated that
II he would let a new man be appointed Ia
hi: place, Gov. Church would approve the
plans and let the asylum extension go on. He
added that he would see the governor In the
internal regions before he would resign with
tie charges OF corruption hanging over him.
Tac Congre gational churches, l05 In mum
Der, assembled at Sioux Falls, memoralized
the president, urgently protesting against the
recent order from the assistant commissioners
Of Indian affairs, forbidding the use Of the